This is in response to a diary on the recc list, http://www.dailykos.com/... which discusses how traffic on this site is trending down, followed by lots of kvetching by the diarist and countless others bemoaning all of their favorite bugaboos and conspiracies about this site.
Now, at first glance and thought, I was in agreement with the author, because for me, a quick kvetch after coffee helps get the day started right.
But then I looked at the numbers given http://www.sitemeter.com/... and actually, things are trending up.
Certainly, site traffic peaked in August for this year, a full 4 million more hits than so far this month, or 25% more hits. But you can't compare August to December. You have to compare August to August, which is not listed on the the given chart.
However December '06 is listed, so we can compare Decembers. If we do that, we see that in December '06 this site received 12,448,648 hits. And so far this month, as this diary is written, Dkos has received 12,477,809.
So, the site has already surpassed December '06's numbers this month. And there are 3 1/2 days left to go this month, at around 500,000 hits a day, add another 1,750,000 hits, that should end things up just over 14,000,000 hits for December '07, over 10% more hits than December of '06.
That does not appear to be trending down.
Oh yeah, and vote for John Edwards.